How is rice grown?

How is rice grown? Rice is the finished product made from rice after cleaning, hulling, milling, finishing and other processes.

Rice planting technology

In order to cultivate rice, seven links should be mastered: soil preparation, seedling cultivation, weeding and pest control, fertilization, irrigation and drainage, drying and screening. Nowadays, machines are often used instead of manpower; seedlings can be raised by choosing the rice seedlings in the seedling center, large-scale planting groups will choose transplanters to transplant rice seedlings, and rice fields with different shapes are manual transplanting. Weeding, fertilization, irrigation and drainage are followed up according to the usual changes in the growth of rice seedlings, and need to be dried and finally screened on the harvest day.

I. Land preparation

Before planting rice, the soil of the rice field must be turned over and softened. This process can be divided into three periods: rough ploughing, fine ploughing and leveling. In the past, animal power and ploughing tools, mainly buffalo, were used to prepare the land, but now machines are used to prepare the land.

2. Raising seedlings

Farmers first cultivate seedlings in a certain field, which is often called a rice field. After sowing rice seeds, farmers mostly sprinkle a layer of rice husk ash on the soil. In modern times, special seedling centers use seedling boxes to make rice seedlings grow. Good rice seedlings are the key to successful rice cultivation. When the seedlings grow about eight centimeters high, they can be planted.

3. Transplanting rice seedlings

Carefully insert the seedlings into the rice fields in an orderly manner. The traditional method of transplanting rice seedlings uses ropes, markers or transplanters to mark the rice fields. When transplanting rice seedlings by hand, a seedling splitter is worn on the thumb of the left hand to help farmers separate the seedlings and insert them into the soil. The climate of transplanting rice seedlings is very important, such as heavy rain will damage the seedlings. In modern times, there are many transplanters to transplant rice seedlings, but in the rice fields where the land is undulating and the shape is not square, manual transplanting is still needed. The seedlings generally run north-south. There is also a more convenient way to throw seedlings.